The last 2008 game against the Raiders, a must win for the Bucs, the Bucs had a 10 point lead in the 3rd quarter and I believe even into the 4th quarter. Then Michael Bush ran for about 600 yards in the 4th quarter, the beaten up and beaten off Bucs had no answer for him.
And now, here we are.

The problem that season is that Hovan and Haye were both injured towards the end of the season and they had been able to, at least to that point, keep the OL from getting to the LBers free and clear. The Panthers ran for about 600 yards against them because Ruud and Brooks who was old and injured couldn't handle the second level blocking and handling RBs who were bigger than they were.

IIRC it went something like this. Ruud was on a one year deal when Foster was drafted after 2010. The 2011 season was the lockout season and, since Ruud was not under contract and Foster as a pick was not able to practice with the team with no contract, the player who became known as The Grand Middle Organizer....Tyrone McKenzie....took over the "starting" Mike position mainly because he knew the defensive signals. Ruud was never signed. This went on through camp and then in the final pre season game, Foster ended up as the Mike. McKenzie was cut prior to the season. It was absolutely asinine since it was obvious that McKenzie couldn't play.
McKenzie, FWIW, continues to this day to be a guy who knows how to play but can't play. He is a LBers coach...last with the Vikings and now with Mike Vrabel.

Ruud knew how to play the middle in the Tampa 2 which is why a lot of his tackles were downfield. Got him the rep of being soft.
And he was. Getting trucked by a 98 pound RB for a TD showed a remarkable ability to take it up the fist hole.

I’d be more interested in knowing for how long could Dumfuknik hold his breath. He must have been swallowing whole Glazerhog in order to be in that job for that long.
Ruud was a smart player especially in Kiffin’s scheme. I just watched the second 2008 Saints game and Ruud was brilliant at reading Brees’s audibles and calling defensive signals. That was Gruden’s last win. Garcia played like absolute shiite and the DL made it obvious that they couldn’t stop power running, hence the 4 game losing streak to finish the Bucs and Gruden.

Cutting Ruud (not the end of the world), and then deciding before camp even began than our starting MLB would be replaced with a 3rd round draft pick in Foster who wasn't even a MLB in college. Its not a reflection on foster, but rather how they operated.
If I ever meet Gruden, the first thing I'm going to ask is whether Mark Dominik made a good cup of coffee. The second question is whether it was better than RaMo's.

It's okay.... Shurmur will call the plays, and Mikey will play an important role working with quarterbacks.
What frightens me about Shula is some team might be stupid enough to hire him as a head coach, and we're on the short (bus) list.

Depends on your definition of entertaining. Maybe if you expect a happy ending, then yeah, they weren't even a handjob.
But watching the Walking Dead or a train wreck can be entertaining. And the Bucs arguably have been both of those over the last decade or so.

Here were the douchebags drafts, including the shit he got for traded picks.
2009
Josh Freeman -- traded UP to get him
Kellan Fucking Winslow -- traded a second rounder for him. Browns would have released him. The beginning of a pattern.
Roy Miller
Kyle Moore
Xavier Fulton
Ironcially his seventh rounders were the best players of his tenure
EG Biggers
Sean Mahan
Sammy Stroughter
2010
Gerald McCoy (a complete no brainer, an untrained monkey would've drafted McCoy there)
Brian Price
Arrelius Benn -- traded UP for the useless tit
Moron Lewis --
Mike Williams -- too bad he was coiched by Raheehaw, he might have had a good career
Brent Bowden -- a PUNTER who sucked even in college
Once again the Dumster's seventh round magic kicks in
Cody Grimm
Dekoda Watson
Eric Lorig
2011
You know what? Fuck this, it's making me sick.